FUPP!
+1 here.
I swore off Paypal sometime ago. The gun issue is reason enough but they also demand to be allowed to link to my checking account which I absolutely refuse. Their customer service is nonexistant at best.
You can’t buy anything on ebay without running it through them so I simply don’t buy from ebay unless I find a vendor who will circumvent paypal.
Yeah I’ve used PayPal for GunBroker transactions before & this issue came up. Libtards. I avoid them now & always encourage others to do so.
Well, I will be closing that account if that’s their policy.
Well known information by those of us that use Gunbroker and Auctionarms
Any alternatives out there? I do not have any capital but someone could make some serious money with a strong alternative to Paypal, couldn’t they?
You got a call? When my account got hacked I couldn’t get through to a live person. Dumped that piece of shit company pronto.
Thanks for the headsup.
Some smart entrepreneur could make a lot of money by becoming the banker for firearm and accessory manufacturers, distributors and dealers.
Your dad should have told them it was for abortion tools. That would really twist them up ;-)
That is very old news. They don’t allow a lot of gun related stuff, not just firearms and ammunition. They stopped allowing brass cases, bullets (for reloading), and a lot of other gun stuff 5 or more years ago.
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So, Staples felt the heat and saw the light.
I used to use paypal too. I was selling for my Father on gunbroker as well. When one day they froze my account and the money inside it (700 bucks). It was payment for a 19th century japanese pistol. Paypal cited their TOS (who reads those lengthy things?) which forbids accepting payment for guns and swords. I called up paypal and talked with a customer representative. I pointed out that legally, under federal law, this was an antique. They were unmoved.
They informed me that my money would be frozen for 6 months before I could withdraw it. I asked the customer representative how often did they allow people to collect their funds any time BEFORE the 6 months freeze had expired. She said never. And my account would be frozen forever as they will never allow me to accept payment using their service ever again.
I did some online research which revealed to me that when paypal went to freeze your account, they waited until you had a huge sum in there. I never heard anybody complain something along the lines of: “they froze my account and I had 2 bucks in there.”, or “they froze my account, but I had nothing in there”. It was ALWAYS: “they froze my account and I had 2000 bucks in there!” and “they froze my account and I had 800 bucks in there!”
More research told me that the reason why they clamped down on your account when you had hundreds or thousands of dollars in your frozen account was so that they could collect interest on that money.
In anger I emailed paypal asking them why it was wrong for me to use their service to accept money for firearms, but it was ok for them to collect interest on those same exact funds. A couple days later, bingo. They emailed me back informing me that I could withdraw my money. Which I did.